Guest Lecture Making Olefin Metathesis work-recent results in Ruthenium Catalysis Design and Applicationsby Prof Karol Leslaw Grela

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Date : 3 Mar 2015

Time : 11:00 am

Venue : AV Hall

Speaker : Prof (Dr) Karol Leslaw Grela, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Topics covered :

• Metathesis reactions between two olefins
• Role of different catalyst to carry out the metathesis reactions
• Applications of metathesis process in different industries like Pharmaceutical industries, Drug industry, Fragrance and flavour industry, Material sciences and agrochemical industry.
• Target oriented metathesis reactions using Vinyl chloride, Azulene,  Phosphene, Vinyl chloride, Sulfones, Nitropropanes and Pyrroles.
• Limitations of metathesis process like difficulties in the formation of substituted double bonds, strained rings, less stability and high catalyst loading.